I would only do the top! I don't understand why some folks wanna do the bottom, once you add a dark substrate it become less noticeable anyways! I recently took the top rim off of a 10 gallon, I was quite surprised at how simple it was!

After some thought, my kid can reach the rim so at this point I might not pull it off. Dont want to risk him getting stitches.

Today I got my Hydor heater, bubble counter. I am all set to go now. All I need is some co2 tubing which I will grab at the LFS in the AM> Might have a running tank this weekend. Plants get ordered now

Tank parameters look good. Added more plants and I think my inline diffuser didn't work for a day? In 24 hours I now have a hair algae problem.

In terms of my scape, I have some things to fix but I wanted to get it planted and cycled before I worked out all the issues with the layout. I am not satisfied with my driftwood so until I find a better piece this is it

I swapped back to the in tank diffuser and will dose a bit more.

Today I added some brave Ghost shrimps since Pet Smart had them $0.30 each. I have 10 with 2 berried running around having fun in the tank.

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